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With a good flowing topside paint, it's easy and the end product looks great.
From my experience, if you thin the paint a bit too much then it's difficult to prevent sags, even with R and T.
I just started sanding my boat yesterday. So can't yet tell you from first hand experience. However from the other threads on here it seems to be no harder than rolling the paint on. The prep work is the key.